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λευγαλέος

λευγαλέος, in sad or sorry plight, wretched

λευγᾰλέος, α, ον, (v. λυγρός):
      • 1 of persons, in sad or sorry plight, wretched, πτωχῷ λ. ἐναλίγκιον Od. 16.273; λ. ἐσόμεσθα 2.61. Adv. -έως, χωρεῖν to go in ill plight, Il. 13.723.
    • II of conditions, etc., sore, baneful, νῦν δέ με λ. θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι, i.e. by drowning, 21.281, cf. Od. 15.359; κήδεσιν . . λευγαλέοισι ib. 399; ἄλγεσι λ. 20.203; πολέμοιο μεθήσετε λ. Il. 13.97; ἐν δαῒ λ. 14.387; φρεσὶ λ. πιθήσας 9.119; λ. ἐπέεσσιν 20.109; ἤθεα λ. Hes. Op. 525; ποινή ib. 754; κόρος Thgn. 1174; ἀνῖαι A.R. 1.295; κέντρον Nic. Th. 836.
      • 2 rarely of material objects, λ. χιτών sorry tunic, Philet. 17.
      • 3 λευγαλέα· διάβροχος, Phot., cf. EM 561.28 (prob. an error due to misunderstanding of S. Fr. 785).

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